Roland Weber

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Roland Weber (born March 3, 1909 in Düsseldorf , † October 14, 1997 ibid) was a German garden architect .

Life

Roland Weber was born as the son of the independent engineer Karl Weber and his wife Agnes. Weber attended a secondary school in Cologne until 1926, but left it without a qualification for financial reasons, instead completing a gardener training from 1927 at the large nursery Jürgl in Sürth , where he was already making smaller planting plans. From 1931 he studied at the Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem , a. a. with the influential perennial gardener Karl Foerster . In 1933 he graduated as a garden technician. Roland Weber then worked again at the nursery Jürgl, now as head of the planning department.

His first assignment as a freelance garden architect was the landscape garden of the Christiansen house on Elbchaussee in Altona on the Elbe in 1934 (Arch. Rudolf Lodders )

In 1936 he founded his own office in Rodenkirchen . During the Second World War, Roland Weber was called up for military service, which he performed as a medic in Russia. After the war, Roland Weber moved his office to Düsseldorf, where he created numerous public and private gardens.

Roland Weber dealt intensively with the garden art of other cultures. In 1978 he traveled to southern Spain to study Moorish architecture and garden art such as the Generalife Gardens in the Alhambra . He also traveled to countries on other continents, such as Morocco , Iran , Thailand and Japan .

Roland Weber lived alone and withdrawn; he died in 1997 of the long-term consequences of a fire accident in his own home. His grave is in the Linnep cemetery in Ratingen-Breitscheid. His friend, the architect Helmut Hentrich , created his gravestone. His office will continue as WKM landscape architects Weber Klein Maas.

Gardens

House Weber , architect: Helmut Hentrich
  • 1934: Landscape garden Haus Christiansen on Elbchaussee in Hamburg-Altona (Architect: Rudolf Lodders)
  • 1936: Private garden in Uedorf near Bonn
  • 1937: House garden Sch. in Marienburg (Cologne)
  • before 1950: B. Garten in Düsseldorf
  • before 1950: H. Garten in Düsseldorf (with Theodor Merrill )
  • 1952–53: Haus Weber's own landscape garden in Düsseldorf- Kalkum , An der alten Mühle 5
  • around 1954: Malkastenpark
  • 1952–55: House garden in Krefeld
  • before 1960: country house garden in the birch grove (architect: Hans Junghanns )
  • 1954–68: Langen garden in Meerbusch
  • 1954: Garden courtyard of a private house in Düsseldorf
  • 1955–57: Renker country house in the Voreifel in Düren -Fuchsbenden
  • 1957: Exhibition garden for the 1957 Federal Horticultural Show in Cologne
  • 1960–61: Outside facilities of the former R 55 casino, Bayer factory in Uerdingen , Krefeld (listed)
  • 1961–95: Outside facilities of the Horten main administration building , Am Seestern, Düsseldorf
  • 1965: Exhibition garden for the 1965 Federal Horticultural Show in Essen
  • 1965–74: Green space planning for the New City of Wulfen
  • 1967: Inner courtyard of Haus Koerfer in Moscia, Ascona , Ticino (architect: Marcel Breuer )
  • 1968–74: Garden courtyard at the Fritz-Henkel-Haus (seminar building) of Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf
  • 1969–75: Frowein landscape garden in Wuppertal
  • 1974–92: Outside facilities of the headquarters of TÜV Rheinland , Cologne
  • 1976–78: Rhine meadows at the Oberkasseler Bridge in Düsseldorf
  • 1978: Garden courtyard of a private house in Düsseldorf
  • 1978: Garden courtyard in the headquarters of TÜV Rheinland , Cologne
  • 1978: Park facilities of Kasteel Groot Buggenum in Grathem , Limburg, Netherlands for Helmut Hentrich
  • 1981–82: Renewal of the historic palace garden of Schloss Rahe , Aachen - Laurensberg
  • 1982: Head office of Mannesmann AG (today Vodafone ), in Düsseldorf- Carlstadt , Mannesmannufer
  • 1982: South garden courtyard of the head office of Deutsche Bank AG, Düsseldorf
  • 1984–86: Garden in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
  • 1988–90: Gardens for the new headquarters of Horten AG , Am Albertussee, Düsseldorf
  • 1990–92: Renewal of the historic palace gardens at Schloss Landsberg (Ratingen) Breitscheid

Exhibitions

  • Exhibition together with the architect Hans Junghanns in the Düsseldorf City Museum, November 1983 to January 1984.
  • Exhibition "Roland Weber - The Art of the Garden" in Benrath Palace (Düsseldorf), July / August 2004

literature

  • Roland Weber - Gardens, Parks, Garden Courtyards , Hatje, Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3-7757-0184-2
  • Stella Baum: Roland Weber. The art of the garden. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0840-5
  • Iris Poßegger: The garden architect Roland Weber. Grupello, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-89978-075-8 . (also dissertation, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development. Volume 18, 1934.
  2. ↑ Website of WKM landscape architects WEBER KLEIN MAAS.
  3. ↑ Art and the beautiful home . 54th year, Bruckmann, Munich 1956
  4. ↑ a b The builder 6/1950
  5. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  6. ↑ Roland Weber, Malkastenpark ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Straße der Gartenkunst, accessed on September 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strasse-der-gartenkunst.de
  7. ↑ Art and the beautiful home . 58th year, Bruckmann, Munich 1960
  8. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  9. ↑ HÄUSER issue 2/1981
  10. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1997
Place of death Dusseldorf